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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:06 pm
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The guy on the video reminds of Ren and Stimpy! :D

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:41 pm
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I don't go to a guitar store to show off--I'll noodle around, play different kinds of chords-power chords, open & barre around the neck, and play random notes & scales, etc.

I always try a guitar unplugged first--if I don't like it unplugged, there's no point in plugging it in.

Sometimes I get compliments, but that's not why I'm doing it--I'm checking out a guitar.

As for working in a music store?
That would be dangerous to my bank account.

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:57 pm
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I walk in and a cloud of smoke rolls along the floor. I pick up a guitar and start shredding next-level licks and the sales staff crank up my amp. Then, beautiful girls start dancing around me. When I'm done they always ask, "Who are you?". I'm like "Whatever" and I walk out.

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:26 am
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A music store is naught but a particular flavour of retail outlet.

Each, whether gourmet cooking, electronics, clothing, sporting goods, pet supplies...has a similar series of unique-to-the-genre customers, from earthly saints to manic, rabid sociopaths. Humans seem predisposed to distribute their behaviour on a societal bell curve.

Ergo, long-repeated exposure to THE most annoying "customers" leads to some less staunch members of staffs curling up in basic fetal position, sucking their thumbs and sobbing...or running, screaming, into the night.


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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:55 am
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Skirt So Plain wrote:
I don't get it. Is the point that the customer is playing noise?

That's not noise--he's playing a new J. Mascis song.

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:40 am
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Funny post Nevin, the Bros face is the show!

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:17 pm
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ukraider wrote:
I recall the thread in the forums about going to the guitar store with a demo kit: headphones, tuner, picks and headphone amp such as the vox amplug range, a great idea.

That what I did when I wanted to check out some basses, except I took my digital recorder instead of the headphone amp, so I could hear how I sounded playing with my music. Since I was interested in the instruments, it also gave me a level playing field, with no influence from nicer amps than what I can afford.

As an adult, the ONLY sane time to go someplace like GC is when the kiddies are in school. So, once a year, I'll take a day off work and go in the middle of the day.

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:24 pm
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I just recently got a job at my local GC, and I was warned by everyone that I would grow tired of the constant "shredding" :lol: , but so far it hasn't gotten on my nerves. I just have to remind myself that I probably sounded like that back in the day. Difference was I sounded like that in my own bedroom, not in public. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:25 am
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I first saw this seres of videos on Guitar Squid last month. They are funny. :) For insurance reasons the store I worked at had an "ask an employee to get the instrument policy" which kept that kind of noise to a minimum.


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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:49 am
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Skirt So Plain wrote:
So this proves that us beginners' worst fears are true: you folks who have more experience are judging and laughing at us when we walk into a Guitar Center. Hmmmm. Good to know. So much for the "welcome to all" laid back rock n roll vibe. I'm glad I buy from the internet, being that nobody ever gave me a guitar and I bought my first one at age 35. I have noticed that every GC employee I have encountered is pretty much a d*ck.

No, we're not specifically judging the poor playing...we're judging the poor playing that is being broadcast louder than the average Who concert from the 1970s.

When I first started, I wasn't arrogant or selfish enough to turn ANY amp up to "eleven" and play all the riffs or licks I knew ad nauseum.

Even if a guy is very talented and can play very well in a style I like, I don't want to hear him crank a 200 watt Marshall stack within the confines of a store, no matter how big the store may be.

Maybe because I don't expect much out of them, and maybe because I am respectful to the employees at GC, I have had very few problems.
...and to the few that I have had problems with, I just say, "You work off commission, right? Big mistake, being a jackass--because I am specifically going to ask another employee to check me out so you don't get the money."

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:42 pm
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stratoBobster wrote:
Every time I visit the GC in Arlington, TX, there are about 15 of those guys playing out of tune and too loud. :lol:

I saw the staff put one guy in a room by himself, so he wouldn't further pollute the already unbearable din. :o

i play IN TUNE and loud at Musos lol. this shredder guy vs'ed me on a gibson flying V while i had a Dean Dimebag Explosion with a marshall halfstack and the Flying V was out of tune while i was in tune with the Dean! the guy lost so i won my first guitar battle

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:13 pm
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FenderGuy1 wrote:
stratoBobster wrote:
Every time I visit the GC in Arlington, TX, there are about 15 of those guys playing out of tune and too loud. :lol:

I saw the staff put one guy in a room by himself, so he wouldn't further pollute the already unbearable din. :o

i play IN TUNE and loud at Musos lol. this shredder guy vs'ed me on a gibson flying V while i had a Dean Dimebag Explosion with a marshall halfstack and the Flying V was out of tune while i was in tune with the Dean! the guy lost so i won my first guitar battle

Did you offer him a ride on your Pegasus as a consolation prize? :roll:

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:40 pm
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FenderGuy1 wrote:
stratoBobster wrote:
Every time I visit the GC in Arlington, TX, there are about 15 of those guys playing out of tune and too loud. :lol:

I saw the staff put one guy in a room by himself, so he wouldn't further pollute the already unbearable din. :o

i play IN TUNE and loud at Musos lol. this shredder guy vs'ed me on a gibson flying V while i had a Dean Dimebag Explosion with a marshall halfstack and the Flying V was out of tune while i was in tune with the Dean! the guy lost so i won my first guitar battle


What does "vs'ed" mean?

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:45 pm
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Deluxe Matt wrote:
FenderGuy1 wrote:
stratoBobster wrote:
Every time I visit the GC in Arlington, TX, there are about 15 of those guys playing out of tune and too loud. :lol:

I saw the staff put one guy in a room by himself, so he wouldn't further pollute the already unbearable din. :o

i play IN TUNE and loud at Musos lol. this shredder guy vs'ed me on a gibson flying V while i had a Dean Dimebag Explosion with a marshall halfstack and the Flying V was out of tune while i was in tune with the Dean! the guy lost so i won my first guitar battle


What does "vs'ed" mean?

Vasectomy?

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Post subject: Re: What its REALLY like to work in a music store.
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:58 pm
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Man, that is happening in music stores now? I know they say it's not that bad, but I have never wanted one. If I see a dude coming at me with an out of tune gibson flying V, I'm covering up and hauling tail out of there.

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